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the + N

valeurs comparative, différentielle,

informative, emphatique, théâtrale

extraction, encadrement, mise en valeur,

exemplarité

le N / le N par excellence

( = separate from the crowd)

All the fun of the fear

Kate Bevan The Guardian Technology p. 3

Thursday November 24, 2005

The Guardian p. 8 22 June 2006

The Guardian Media p. 12 26 June 2006

The Guardian Media p. 13 26 June 2006

Sistine Chapel of the ice age revealed

Experts hail elaborately carved cave ceiling

With its drooping bill and beady eye,

the ancient bird looks like a cross

between a podgy curlew and a dodo.

The strikingly realistic image was etched into

the soft limestone roof a Nottinghamshire cave

by a paleolithic artist around 13,000 years ago.

He or she (or some contemporary colleague)

also carved a menagerie of birds, bison, deer and bears

on the same roof in a gallery that has caused

the jaws of experts to drop with amazement.

These relics of a land still shivering in climatic change

came to light in the bright sun of a spring morning

in the 21st century and are now hailed collectively as

"the world's most elaborately carved cave ceiling ...

the Sistine Chapel of the ice age".